What is The Road Show about?

The Road Show is the story of five broken souls—contemporary members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—each struggling with a spiritual or emotional challenge: pornography addiction, postpartum depression, health problems, loneliness, feeling excluded, and spiritual numbness.

For various reasons, they all end up participating in their ward’s road show. Most of them do this against their will, and it is not something they are looking forward to.

The conflicts, internal and external, that arise from their reluctant participation drive the plot forward, and their participation leads them to ultimate healing through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. The narrative of the story catches these five people at their lowest points and follows them into the beginning stages of being healed.

Given the nature of some of the issues in the book, I want to emphasize this isn’t a self-help book or a sermon—it’s a story about people. And it’s not all serious and solemn and depressing. A few of the endorsements have noted that the book is hopeful and even funny, and I’m glad they thought so. I thought it was when I wrote it. In fact, I wrote most of this book late at night in bed. Often, I’d be typing on my laptop, giggling to myself while my poor wife tried to sleep. Especially when I was writing about just how bad some of the road show ideas were, or the interactions between some of the members of the ward